‘Ninety per cent of houses are damaged’: thousands trapped in Ukraine’s small towns
by Emma Graham-Harrison in Lviv and Isobel Koshiw in from World news | The Guardian on (#5WRJQ)
Residents say shelling of Schastia and Volnovakha is revenge for standing up to Russian aggression'
Happiness lies in ruins. This small town - Schastia in Ukrainian - has been out of the headlines since Moscow took its brutal war against civilians to the country's biggest cities.
But it is here, and in nearby Volnovakha, that the illegal tactics of terrorising civilians for military aims, honed in Syria and then brought back so close to home, have reached a grim apotheosis.
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